PP: This hypothyroidism is killing me... >.< one more day to go until I see a specialist. Wish it was Tuesday already.

AP: Saw the specialist todayPP: It is not my thyroid that wants me dead now, but it will sometime in the next few years. Must be my depression being all stupid without the right meds. PP2: Appointment to see psychiatrist isn't until December. >.<

PP: Financial aid bullshit"Your FAFSA has been randomly selected for verification..." OH REALLY NORTH GEORGIA, FOR THE THIRD TIME NOW I'VE BEEN 'RANDOMLY SELECTED?' EVEN THOUGH LITERALLY NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT MY FINANCIAL SITUATION SINCE LAST YEAR AND I HAVE A SISTER WHO HAS THE SAME INFORMATION?God fucking BULLSHIT, all Goddamn bit of it. And I wouldn't be so mad if my sister hadn't lost all the documents I need.

PP: It's been over a week and I still haven't heard a thing from her, I've sent her a couple emails and received no response, and I sent her a private message on the game site we both go to (Which she has been on recently) and haven't gotten a response there either, at this point I think she's just ignoring me or something. I don't know, I'm scared and stressed, after only a little more than a week this whole relationship has turned to a wreck. I don't know what to do.

PP: Those days where you can't exactly pinpoint what went wrong, but it did. And you're cranky, crabby, and about ready to vomit rage over everything you love and have to excuse yourself so you don't. I know I'm being irrational, but I'm cranky and I can't seem to stop. Weh.

PP: When you go to the game store to get something specific that you know they had, but it's gone. All that was left was Romancing Saga and I know nothing about it. And Substance, but already have Sons of Liberty.Edit: PP2: The latest chapter of Bleach. That had one of the single worst moments in the entire series.

PP: People who turn off items in super smash brothers because they "ruin the balance of the game."

Fuck you! That's the damn point!

Translation: "I'm a bitch who's going to whine when I get nailed with a hammer."Most fun shit ever was on original SSB, turning all items off except the hammer and Pokeballs and turning those up to maximum frequency, and going ham.The smoke never cleared.

PP: One of the two good radio stations in Atlanta was acquired by Clear Channel, who is turning it into a Top 40 station. Like we needed another one of those when we already have 4. I just bought an input cable so I can play the music on my phone, but it's the principle of the thing, dammit. The Atlanta metro area didn't need another shitty pop station.

PP: Oh my fucking god this back-end replacement will be the death of me. Bringing this project up to a decent standard, and killing off the years of kluges, still isn't done, and I've spent 23 of the last 40 hours on this project. I'm running on coffee and no sleep, and I don't even like coffee. WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?

The end goal is to have a setup where you guys can buy the original artwork for the comic as soon as the comic is posted. But this thing winds its way through umpteen different functions and something somewhere is fenceposting or using a comic number as an ID number or an array key or sometimes ALL OF THE ABOVE for no apparent reason because I can only assume that I WAS POSSESSED BY CTHULHU when I wrote the original code.

PP: Oh my fucking god this back-end replacement will be the death of me. Bringing this project up to a decent standard, and killing off the years of kluges, still isn't done, and I've spent 23 of the last 40 hours on this project. I'm running on coffee and no sleep, and I don't even like coffee. WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?

The end goal is to have a setup where you guys can buy the original artwork for the comic as soon as the comic is posted. But this thing winds its way through umpteen different functions and something somewhere is fenceposting or using a comic number as an ID number or an array key or sometimes ALL OF THE ABOVE for no apparent reason because I can only assume that I WAS POSSESSED BY CTHULHU when I wrote the original code.

Gotta love this band to pieces no matter what. I hope my life gets less angsty later on, and these lyrics stop matching the scaffolding of my feels. But until then, we rejoice because we are trying our best.

Kinda. Different pieces of the website are different ages and quality, depending on when I put them together. I first started helping with the site in 2006, and when Katie left, took over from her in something like 2007 I think? The older bits of the site have been almost entirely replaced. Some of them two or three times. But each piece has to be set up to work with whatever old crap hasn't been replaced yet.

One of the projects I'm working on is one to allow translators to translate the text of the site and the comics, so that we can host translated versions of the comic here as well. That's been a task and a half. The originals issue was that back in the day, Jenny never did filler, alternate storyline comics, etc. So, comic 1 was comic 1, forever. The engine was originally built with that premise. But with the murblesaur, and the occasional holiday filler, now comic 400 ain't actually the 400th comic posted. So the originals had a kluge in them where they'd adjust the offset by X depending on how far along the user was when browsing through files. But that always had to be updated by hand, and Jenny never could set up new originals for the store without my help. So I had to tear that out and rebuild it. And since I'm doing the translations anyway, I had to make sure that the systems will be compatible with each other. After all, a german translation has the same original lineart as an english comic.

If I had to guess, I think the oldest bits of the site right now are probably the display functions that power the galleries. That particular code hasn't really changed much. The core of the site, I completely redid in something like... 2009? maybe 2008. For a while we even incorporated WordPress as a way to have folks comment on the newspost, and so Jenny could run a blog on the site, but it got buried in spam, so I wound up removing it.